The phrase "under God" was spray-painted by vandals onto an atheist billboard on Billy Graham Parkway in Charlotte, N.C. over the weekend. The sign, put up a week ago, was controversial both for its message and for its location on a road named for Billy Graham, the Charlotte-born evangelist. The sign features an American flag background and quoted the original phrase from the Pledge of Allegiance, "One Nation Indivisible", before "under God" was inserted after "one nation" in 1954. A state coalition of atheist, agnostic and freethinker groups put up the same billboard in five other cities in North Carolina. AP Photo logo AP Photo 20 months ago

The phrase "under God" was spray-painted by vandals onto an atheist billboard on Billy Graham Parkway in Charlotte, N.C. over the weekend. The sign, put up a week ago, was controversial both for its message and for its location on a road named for Billy Graham, the Charlotte-born evangelist. The sign features an American flag background and quoted the original phrase from the Pledge of Allegiance, "One Nation Indivisible", before "under God" was inserted after "one nation" in 1954. A state coalition of atheist, agnostic and freethinker groups put up the same billboard in five other cities in North Carolina.

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